The Standing Group on Organised Crime is part of the European Consortium for Political Research. We promote research in transnational organised crime across different disciplines, and co-operation and communication among the scholars and practitioners internationally through conferences and electronic communications. We publish in January, May and September a newsletter. You can enable an RSS feed for this blog by clicking on the Atom link at the bottom of the page.Our website: www.sgocnet.org/

30 August 2010

"We have delegated to drug lords the job of managing our immigrant supply, just as they manage our supply of narcotics. The results are clear."

We arent quite so bad in Europe, but we need to learn from the mistakes being made on the US-Mexico border. We've only delegated our immigrant supply policy to organised crime as a whole...Do we have more civilised cartels? I doubt it.

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